Pipefitter

Your Job

Koch Specialty Plant Services, LLC has immediate openings for Pipefitters for various locations within the U.S .

Our Team

Koch Specialty Plant Services, LLC (KSPS) is a world leader for providing tower, vessel, and mass transfer equipment services to the refining and chemical industry. We attained this leadership position by applying Principle Based Management®, our unique business philosophy that combines core values with a focused business approach. Integrity, compliance and customer focus are paramount to our success and KSPS' industry leading position as a specialty tower, vessel and mass transfer internals service provider has been solidified in the marketplace because, quite simply, ''we do what we say we can do''. There are many ways to define value. For KSPS, meeting our commitments and exceeding customer expectations are key measures when it comes to quantifying the true value of a deliverable. Unlike anyone else, KSPS has the ability to integrate people, experience, discipline, knowledge, and our unique principle based management business philosophy to deliver the best value proposition in the industry.

What You Will Do

• Identify and properly install trays, packing, grid, feed pipe, distributors, collectors, various column pressure internals under limited supervision.
• Possess basic Process Safety Management knowledge and Hazardous Communication skills.
• Able to identify exchanger components such as straight tube, U bend, fixed head bundles. Channel head, dollar plate, bell head, floating head, etc.
• Identify hand and power tools and their purposes.
• Ability to identify and use all tools and equipment necessary to perform assigned work.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 6 Months or more of Industry experience preferred.
• Previous experience in gas and oil field construction preferred.
• Must be able to provide your own transportation to job locations throughout the U.S.
• Must be willing and able to meet all Company and Customer project entry requirements including training, background check, and drug test.
• Must have current TWIC Card or ability to obtain one if required.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Two years or more of industrial plant experience in blinding, opening, cleaning, and repair of operating pressure vessels such as towers, reactors, drums, exchangers, heaters and/ or installing mass transfer equipment (trays, packing, distributors, collectors, etc.)
• Previous experience installing equipment related to process internals such as valve trays, bubble cap trays, mist eliminators, structured packing, reactor internals, random packing, distributors, collectors of mass transfer equipment.
• Ability to properly use an oxy-acetylene torch.
• Ability to operate arc gauger.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings or blueprints and can utilize them to identify and properly install process internals.
• Basic Plus Orientation.
• Confined Space Training.
• Successful completion of an NCCER craft assessment certificate(s).

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS) provides code welding work related to repair, revamp, replacement and field fabrication of towers and vessels, piping and specialty welding, mass transfer equipment installation, inspection and professional project services.


At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical and Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.


Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).